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Barash, David P. – Environment and Behavior, 1973
A study of human personal space and flight distance in terms of the responses of college students to intrusions upon their presumed personal space. Investigates the elicitation of aggressive or defensive behavior. (LK)
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Distance
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Struever, Stuart; Collins, Barbara Baum – Councilor, 1972
A summer field school in the lower Illinois River Valley is designed to provide students with clinical training in archaeological excavation and analytical methods. The multi-disciplinary training is unique in the United States. (Author/JB)
Descriptors: Ancient History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Course Descriptions
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Fe Jamias, Maria; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1971
Results indicated that self perception in terms of ethnic identity increased with age, and that identity was strongest with the immediately surrounding group rather than with a national group. (CB)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cross Cultural Studies, Ethnic Groups, Ethnology
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Stock, Irvin – Change, 1971
The fashion of relevance" takes the form of an attack on learning, and on the mind itself. (Editor)
Descriptors: Black Literature, Black Teachers, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
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Dolph, Gary E. – Science Teacher, 1989
Explains procedures and activities involved in conducting and using a dig for teaching students about ethnobiological topics and ancient civilizations. Provides guidelines for dealing with the same lesson without taking students on a dig. (RT)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Archaeology, Botany, Ethnology
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Davis, Lenwood G. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1990
Themes in research on African-American families between 1939 and 1989 are discussed, and the following recently developed themes are highlighted: (1) stress, (2) aging, (3) adoption, (4) prison, (5) polygamy, and (6) violence. Much more research is needed to provide better understanding of the African-American family. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black Family, Black History, Blacks, Ethnology
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Kraemer, Roberta – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
The dynamic nature of the social conditions measured by the Subjective Vitality Questionnaire and their susceptibility to change as a result of social and historical events was investigated. Results of three-years of data-gathering from Israeli Jewish and Arab high school students are discussed in terms of Israeli Arab identity. (18 references)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Measures, Ethnicity, Ethnolinguistics
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Carlston, Erin G. – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2005
Alfredo Vea Jr.'s 1993 novel "La Maravilla" depicts a 1950s squatter community on the edge of Phoenix. The community, Buckeye Road, questions notions of U.S. American identity as middle-class, WASP, and heterosexual. Buckeye can easily be viewed as a romanticized utopia that offers an alternative to consumer capitalism, urban sprawl, the…
Descriptors: Novels, Religious Factors, Literature Appreciation, Literary Criticism
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Hsieh, Min-Hua – Education, 2006
Actual empirical research that explores East Asian female international students' identity development is lacking. Therefore, a qualitative study was conducted to investigate how five East Asian female international students' identities are developed in a second-language environment, the United States. Challenging the conceptual approach that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cultural Influences, Second Language Learning, Identification (Psychology)
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Fojas, Camilla – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2006
The films "Star Maps" and "El Norte" reveal the real political, socioeconomic, and psychic costs of divided cities by bringing the simulated realities of mass media to their logical end, thereby sacrificing each character to the disorder of the city. In "Star Maps", Carlos dreams of becoming the next major Latino…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Fantasy, Mexican Americans, Mass Media Effects
Brewer, Chris, Comp.; Grinde, Linda, Comp. – 1995
This book helps students and teachers explore the concept of culture and to appreciate the diversity of cultures of the world. The nine cultures in the book represent a variety of races and environments. Each chapter offers ideas for activities for student to explore elements of culture and common human experiences. The chapters are divided into…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Pluralism, Culture
Chhim, Sun-Him – 1987
This booklet about the cultural background of Cambodia is one of three booklets that serve as a foundation for understanding the cultural diversity and values of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese students. Cambodia, or Kampuchea, has a population of about 7,000,000 and is located in mainland Southeast Asia. Its history is divided into the…
Descriptors: Asian History, Cambodians, Cultural Background, Cultural Context
Fewkes, Jesse Walter – 1989
This book contains reprints of three essays by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930) on the pottery of the prehistoric Mimbres Indians. The three papers were originally published by the Smithsonian Institution between 1914 and 1924. The first, "Archeology of the Lower Mimbres Valley, New Mexico," examines historical references to ancient…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indian Studies, American Indians
Collins, Timothy – 1989
This bibliography lists available literature relating to the American Indians of Appalachia. Containing approximately 540 entries, the list includes publications on American Indians from prehistoric times up to the present. The materials focus primarily on the Shawnee and Cherokee tribes, which inhabited portions of what is now called central…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indian Literature, American Indian Studies
Das, Veena – 1984
One particular death and the rituals, funeral ceremony, and mourning which followed it are used to explore the relationship of the living to death. The particular death described was one which occurred during a year of fieldwork among urban Punjabis. By examining the category of mourners, it was possible to discern a structure within which grief…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Case Studies, Death, Ethnography
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